Booker Prize Winner 1989. An elderly butler's obsession with the
dignity of his profession is shaken on a five day West Country
motoring trip in the 1950s the climax of which is a meeting with
his former housekeeper Miss Kenton. During the course of the
narrative, he recalls in compelling and vivid detail his service in
the 1930s, and the painful realization that the man he served and
respected was a Nazi sympathizer. The unrealised love between
Stevens and Miss Kenton underscores the novels atmosphere of
chastening loss. Ishiguro's work captures this period of British
history while painting a complex picture of a proud, ageing man.
(Kirkus UK)
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and
blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we
might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing
butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will
take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A
contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's
beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a
Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. The Remains of
the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.
General
| Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
FF Classics |
| Release date: |
April 1999 |
| Authors: |
Kazuo Ishiguro
|
| Dimensions: |
178 x 110 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Mass Market
|
| Pages: |
258 |
| Edition: |
Open Market Edition - FF Classice (Export) |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-20073-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-571-20073-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780571200733 |
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